Poor Quotes

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.

Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

I'd like to live like a poor man with a lot of money.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

The poor must be wisely visited and liberally cared for, so that mendicity shall not be tempted into mendacity, nor want exasperated into crime.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten.

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.

Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn't get carved out by poor people.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy; forceful execution of even a poor plan can often bring victory.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.

Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.

We have to have powder for our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it.

If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.